Ourselves Quotes

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.